How To Make Homepages and Other Nifty Tips

Hey,

Well, it’s Squishy133 here! I haven’t posted (Since being chosen in the Author contest) yet, and I noticed that a few people were asking how to make homepages, posts on pages etc. So I figured I’d lend a hand! Here’s a few little guides:

 

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How To Make A Homepage:

Making a homepage (Like the one you see when you log into Josh’s site here, can be a really great effect for your site! So you wan’t one…I’m guessing? Well, here’s how!

1. First, you need to create a new page. Title this one “Home” (Or somthing similar. You can call it whatever you want really, but it’s easier just to call it home – for our example we will call it Home). This page is going to be your homepage. It will always be at the front of your blog unless you delete it – so put somthing interesting on it! A picture (Like the one on this site) can be good. See below if you don’t know how to link that to your soon to be created blog entries page (The one you are on now). Publish this page with words or whatever you put on it, it doesn’t really matter right now. You can always edit it or add more later.

2. Create another new page. Call this one “Blog” (Or somthing similar. Blog Entries or somthing easy for your viewers to understand is always good. Just make it easy to navigate to – For our example we will call it Posts). Don’t write anything on this page! Just leave it blank. This is the page your posts will go on.

3. Go to settings, and then reading (From your admin navigation bar). You will see the options below (Note, this is copied from the main wordpress FAQ page, that can be found here):

 

4. Click ‘A static page’ and change ‘Front page’ to whatever you named the first page you created (For our example we named it “home”).

5. For ‘Posts Page’ change it to the second blank page you created (in this case, in the example, we called it “Posts”).

6. And you’re done! If you ever want to get rid of this front page, then just change the option above to ‘Your latest posts’ and you won’t see the homepage! This homepage will show up in your ‘pages’ widget if you have one or in your pages bar if your theme has one.  If you end up with two homepage links, click here to find out how to fix it.

 

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How Do I Put Posts On More Than One Page?

You can’t. I believe it was Mooseluver that had asked this, and I looked it up on the wordpress FAQ for you and unfortunatly it’s not possible. Sorry about that. I guess you’ll just have to stick to posting on the one page.

I’m not sure if I understood your question correctly, but I answered as best as I could. If I got it wrong, let me know and I’ll try and sort it out.

 

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To Link A Picture To A Site (E.g. From the picture on your new homepage to your blog entries page):

Ok, Blinky was asking this one I think. Right. Step by step instructions, here we go:

1. Firstly you need a picture. I’m just going to use the one Josh has on his homepage for now, seeing as it’s the only image I can be bothered to get. So have your image ready.

2. To import or upload an image you need to click the button with the red box around it in the picture below. This opens a new window.

 

4.Click ‘browse’ and find your image. Make sure you choose the right format when you save the image or you wont be able to upload it (.png is best). Then press ‘upload’. Fiddle with the settings when it has loaded and then press ‘insert into post’.

 

5. Now that the image is inserted, put it where you want it on the page and fiddle with the size or whatever to get it perfect. Now it’s time to link it! So, you need to have the web address of the site you want to link it to handy. In this case, we are using this site as an example (The blog page I mean. So this post is from the perspective of linking the image Josh has put on his homepage to the blog entries page you are reading now), so you would have the address http://rainingwater.wordpress.com/blog-entries/. Here’s a pic of the picture we are going to link!

6. Now click the image you have inserted, and click the button with the red box around it in the picture below (It looks like a chain link). This box is also used to link words etc. (To link words, highlight them with the curser and continue with the following steps).  You want the lower picture (with the orange arrow), where the ‘links’ button is darker, or highlighted. This means that you can click it. You can’t use the top image as the button isn’t highlighted. If yours looks like this then try clicking the image you want to link.

7. Now when you click that button, it comes up with another little pop-up window. It should say stuff like the picture below.

8. Now type the address of the place you want the picture to link to. For our example, this was http://rainingwater.wordpress.com/blog-entries/.  For the ‘Target’ drop down menu, this lets you choose what happens when you click the link. E.g. Will it open in a new internet explorer screen or will it change the screen you are on to the new page. I usually choose “open link in the same window”, but that’s just my personal preference. Try this out and see what you like – you can always change it later. Ignore title, and ignore class and press ‘update’.

9. Well there you go! Your image is linked! Publish the post/page and test the link out! I’ve linked the image below to show you what should happen when you click it (This image will just take you back to the Raining Water Homepage – so don’t click it unless you want to navigate away from this post.

9. If you ever want to get rid of the link, then you have a few options. 1, delete the picute. 2, click the link button again and delete the address from the ‘Link URL’ bar. Or 3, click the button on the left of the link button we have been using (It looks like a broken chain link). This automatically gets rid of the link on the picture in one foul swoop.

 

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Well there you go! You have hopefully learned somthing new from this post, so why not go try it out?

Good luck, let me know if you have any problems and I’ll try and help or if you have any more questions and I’ll try and post them in this little ‘mini wordpress guide’.

~Squishy133~